An art work is a laborious job. However, the advent of AI has made artworks available on internet with ease. It affects the career of the artists. An AI-assisted bot generates art work as a response to a prompt.

Researchers want to protect the original art works. They developed a tool called Glaze to thwart AI from mimicking the style of the artists. Glaze Beta 2 is available for download.

An individual art work or artwork portfolio is posted online to earn revenue. Generative AI can create art works in the same style. Glaze creates a cloaked version of the original image as a protective measure. After such cloaked version is produced, it can be posted online instead of the original work. It prevents AI to mimic it.

The work of the artist is first uploaded to Glaze. It makes a few alterations hardly perceptible for the human eye. These alterations are called ‘style cloak.’ The altered art work is called ‘cloaked art.’ It almost appears identical with original. The computer picks up the cloaked version. Now if the prompt asks the AI-bot to depict Husain’s horses, the generated images will be very different from the original work of Husain.

Glaze has its limitations. Some alterations made on flat colours and smooth backgrounds are visible. Glaze is is also not a permanent solution against AI simulation. AI too evolves, and Glaze is not future-proof. Thus art becomes vulnerable.

Glaze is useful as it allows artists to earn rather than the AI companies who charge a subscription fee. It is a beginning made to protect the artists from AI simulation.

AI has now advanced to a stage where a prompt can make it generate videos.